Development of an industrial SCADA firewall prototype using single board computer - part 2 by Teo, Joycelyn Li Ting

“…Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) is one of such systems which controls the operations in these industries. In the past, SCADA systems operate in isolation from the rest of the world, within their own networks. …”
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Modelling, design and control of the virtual synchronous machine in the smart grid application by Chen, Yidan

“…In the past few years, due to the increasing people’s awareness in environmental protection, the renewable energy (distribution) generation plays a larger and larger part in the power grid. …”
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Laplacian Regularized Subspace Learning for interactive image re-ranking by Zhang, Lining., Wang, Lipo., Lin, Weisi.

“…Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has attracted substantial attention during the past few years for its potential applications. To bridge the gap between low level visual features and high level semantic concepts, various relevance feedback (RF) or interactive re-ranking (IR) schemes have been designed to improve the performance of a CBIR system. …”
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Compressing Trajectory for Trajectory Indexing by Feng, Kaiyu, Shen, Zhiqi

“…With the availability of such trajectory data, many mining tasks have been proposed and investigated in the past decade. Since the raw trajectory data is usually very large, it is a big challenge to analyse and mine the raw data directly. …”
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Preface : two dimensional (2D) hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites by Li, Wei, Docampo, Pablo, Mohite, Aditya D., Zhang, Hua

“…2D hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (HOIPs) have been intensively investigated over the past 30 years before the rise of photovoltaic 3D hybrid perovskites. …”
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A sustainable approach to individualized disease treatment : The engineering of a multiple use MEMS drug delivery device by Tng, Danny Jian Hang, Song, Peiyi, Hu, Rui, Lin, Guimiao, Yong, Ken-Tye

“…Individualized disease diagnosis and therapy has emerged as a new direction in the research of future medication. Over the past several years, innovative approaches based on microelectromechanical system (MEMS) technology have demonstrated promising potential in individualized therapy. …”
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Mitigating the impact of node mobility using mobile backbone for heterogeneous MANETs by Xia, Yang, Yeo, Chai Kiat

“…Routing in Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) has been an active research area in the past few years. It is observed that as the mobility of nodes increases, the performance of existing cluster based routing protocols tends to deteriorate rapidly. …”
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The temporality of building: European and Chinese perspectives on architecture and heritage by Gao, Yun, Temple, Nicholas, Xiao, Jing

“…Through these lenses, buildings, interiors and their exterior spaces (churches/cathedrals, temples, palaces, gardens and courtyard houses) are explored to demonstrate how building time involves particular situations/settings and their correlating relationships to past traditions. In the final chapter we consider notions of time in the context of contemporary buildings in Europe and China, drawing on the earlier historical investigations and addressing globalising influences. …”
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tobac v1.5: introducing fast 3D tracking, splits and mergers, and other enhancements for identifying and analysing meteorological phenomena by Sokolowsky, GA, Freeman, SW, Jones, WK, Kukulies, J, Senf, F, Marinescu, PJ, Heikenfeld, M, Brunner, KN, Bruning, EC, Collis, SM, Jackson, RC, Leung, GR, Pfeifer, N, Raut, BA, Saleeby, SM, Stier, P, van den Heever, SC

“…The Tracking and Object-Based Analysis of Clouds (tobac) Python package is a modular, open-source tool that improves on the overall generality and utility of past tools. A number of scientific improvements (three spatial dimensions, splits and mergers of features, an internal spectral filtering tool) and procedural enhancements (increased computational efficiency, internal regridding of data, and treatments for periodic boundary conditions) have been included in tobac as a part of the tobac v1.5 update. …”

Information gathering: dissociable effects of autistic and alexithymic traits in youths aged 6–25 years by Lee, KS, Long, EL, Catmur, C, Hauser, TU, Bird, G

“…Little is known about the cognitive processes associated with this intolerance of uncertainty, most notably the tendency to actively gather information to minimize uncertainty. Past research has relied on self-report measures that may not allow investigation of the multifaceted processes associated with intolerance of uncertainty, including information gathering. …”

Just nature recovery: a framework for centring multispecies and multi-dimensional justice in land management by Stanley, T, Hirons, M, Turnbull, J, Lorimer, J, Kumeh, E, Hafferty, C, Anderson, L, McDermott, C

“…This paper examines how different framings of justice, and different approaches to nature recovery, interact to either retrench or redress past and present injustices in a range of Scottish examples. …”

Spatial mapping of the seismic vulnerability index in Kathmandu Valley: insight from dominant frequency and amplification factor by Poudyal, Dibyashree, Nordin, Norhaiza, Roslan, Siti Nur Aliaa, Dahal, Bhim Kumar

“…Kathmandu Valley situated in Nepal has experienced several earthquakes in the past. The expanding population of Kathmandu Valley is driving a significant acceleration in building construction reaching record levels and posing risks to both human lives and the economy, despite this surge in development. …”
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Translator’s visibility in mediating confrontational responses of “challenge” strategy at China’s diplomatic press conferences by Yang, Wei, Mansor, Nor Shahila, Ang, Lay Hoon, Yang, Mingxing

“…The study aims to unveil how translators deal with confrontational responses through their visibility in translating the diplomatic discourse of China’s diplomatic press conferences. Distinct from past theoretical frameworks, this study is grounded in the impoliteness strategies model (Bousfield, 2008) and the concept of translator’s visibility. …”
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Factors influencing employee motivation in the Malaysian banking industry by Pereira, Dalina Alpons, Abdullah, Meor Rashydan, Wider, Walton, Tanucan, Jem Cloyd M., Lee, Harvey Pak Ting, Jiang, Leilei, Udang, Lester Naces

“…The study utilised a cross-sectional design, and the research instruments were adapted from a number of past studies. A total of 350 respondents from the Malaysian banking industry were recruited. …”
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Takaful Product in Islamic Estate Planning by Azhar, Alias, Che Arshad, Noraziah

“…The benefits can be enjoyed by family from the takaful product will be the Islamic estate of a continuity guarantee after the contributor past away. Aspiring by this issue, this paper will focus on two fold. …”
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Formulation of A New Product Development Process Innovation Framework for Malaysian SMEs by Abu, Noor Hidayah, Mansor, Mohd Fitri

“…This study will investigate the characteristics of the process innovation frameworks proposed by past studies to provide an understanding on the similarities and differences between all the frameworks. …”
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Research into the impacts of electronic road pricing and in-vehicle unit on commercial drivers' perception and behaviour by Ang, Shang Le

“…In this project, a total of five locations mainly – Jalan Bahar Heavy Vehicle Park, Jurong East Heavy Vehicle Parking, Tradehub 21, Jurong Point Loading and Unloading Area and Midview City at Sin Ming Lane, are chosen for the conduct of the behavioural and perception survey. …”
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Expert system for real time optimization of solid waste management in Malaysia by Abu Samah, Mohd Armi

“…Malaysia being one the developing countries in South East Asia also faces the same problem due to the lack of comprehensive data and public awareness towards this issue. …”
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Endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) for idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) by Tudor, Katarina Ivana, Tudor, Mario, McCleery, Jenny, Car, Josip

“…Patients had to have at least two symptoms of the Hakim-Adams triad. Exclusion criteria were obstructive causes of hydrocephalus, other significant intracranial pathology and other confirmed causes of dementia. …”
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Prioritising conservation areas in Southeast Asia: highlighting zoological biodiversity hotspots and assessing spatiotemporal patterns of the felids guild by Chiaverini, L

“…Specifically, biodiversity hotspots have originally been identified as those global areas containing at least 0.5% or 1,500 of the World’s vascular plant species as endemic and that have lost at least 70% of their primary vegetation. …”